Moral anti-realism
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The view Mackie defends by two routes, holding that there are no objective moral values, though moral language and feeling remain explicable.
The meta-ethical view that there are no mind-independent moral properties or facts.
Topics that use Moral anti-realism
- Meta-ethics (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
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- Argument from relativity
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- Cognitivism and truth-aptness
- Descriptive versus normative language
- Emotion and attitudes as a source of moral principles
- Emotivism
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